Prop 62 & Prop 66:​"It has a certain appeal"

"A lot of lawyers don't want to do death penalty cases: they're really hard, they don't pay well, and when you lose your client gets executed, so they're really stressful."

-Justin Brooks

What is our podcast about?

This podcast shows the opinion of the directer of The Innocence Project and himself being an appeals lawyer. Because of Prop 66, appeals lawyers would have to take on all the death penalty cases. We interviewed a popular appeals lawyer, and the founder of the California Innocence Project, Justin Brooks.

Justin Brooks, Director of the California Innocence Project

What are Props 62 and 66?

Proposition 62, and 66 are both conflicting propositions about the death penalty in California. Proposition 66 is for keeping the death penalty but creating tweaks to it. And Proposition 62 is for totally getting rid of the death and replacing it with life with out parole.

Why are appeals lawyers forced to take on death penalty cases?

[Fill this in]Appeals lawyers are forced to take on the death penalty cases because

What is the Innocence project?The Innocence Project is a non-profit legal organization that is committed to exonerating wrongly convicted people through the use of DNA testing and to reforming the criminal justice system to prevent future injustice

How many people are wrongfully convicted?

In the year of 2015, across the United States, exactly 149 people were cleared for crimes that they did not commit. More than any year in history. In 2014, 139 people were exonerated. The number of people wrongly convicted has been rising since 2005 when 61 people were cleared for crimes they did not commit. The men and women last year in 2015 that were cleared spent an average of 14.5 years in prison.